{"id":158225,"date":"2023-02-16T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/brain-implants-like-neuralink-could-change-your-personality-in-surprising-ways"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:28:17","slug":"brain-implants-like-neuralink-could-change-your-personality-in-surprising-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/brain-implants-like-neuralink-could-change-your-personality-in-surprising-ways","title":{"rendered":"Brain Implants Like Neuralink Could Change Your Personality In Surprising Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-implants-like-neuralink-could-change-your-personality-in-surprising-ways2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Elon Musk<\/a> wants to put a computer chip in your brain. Well, maybe not in your brain, but in the brain of some human somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s neurotech startup, Neuralink, has been working toward implanting its skull-embedded brain chip in a human since it was founded in 2016. After years of testing on animal subjects, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neuralink-elon-musk-microchips-brains-ai-2021-2\" rel=\"\">announced<\/a> in December that the company planned to initiate human trials within six months (though this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/tech-neuralink-musk\/musks-neuralink-venture-promises-to-reveal-a-working-brain-computer-device-idINL8N2FT7EL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wasn\u2019t the first time<\/a> he\u2019d said these <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/neuralink-may-start-human-implants-later-this-year-elon-musk-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">trials were on the horizon<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Neuralink has spent over half a decade figuring out how to translate brain signals into digital outputs \u2013 imagine being able to move a cursor, send a text message, or type in a word processor with just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk wants to put a computer chip in your brain. Well, maybe not in your brain, but in the brain of some human somewhere. Musk\u2019s neurotech startup, Neuralink, has been working toward implanting its skull-embedded brain chip in a human since it was founded in 2016. After years of testing on animal subjects, Musk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}